March 6, 2020

We know you are well aware of our upcoming SBAC/ CAASPP/CAST testing in Math, English, and Science (for 8th only) that is coming up in April.  We will be on block schedule and we will be sending the schedule home with students via email.  In the meantime, we are getting our Vikings ready for this assessment!  

How can you help at home?  Check out THIS DOCUMENT and the video above (although a little old =)) for more information and how you can support your Viking at home!

Lately, we are discovering that MANY of our students have MULTIPLE Instagram accounts that are unknown to parents.  Just because they have ONE app showing Instagram, they can have 6 or more on that ONE APP.  How do you look or know what to look for?  CHECK YOUR VIKINGS' ACCOUNT!!! Take a look at THIS ARTICLE and scroll down to the "red" thumb to see what is not safe for your students.  Educate yourself, parents, so that you know what to look for with social media as this is the root of MANY MANY middle school issues

ATTENTION CURRENT 6TH GRADERS:

Please turn in a copy of your child's immunization record showing that they have received the T.dap immunization on or after their 7th birthday to the nurses's office!  They MUST have proof of receiving two Varicella immunizations as well!  Proof of receiving these immunizations must be received BEFORE your student can pick up their 7th grade schedule or attend 7th grade!!!  Call our nurses's office at 863-7375 if you have questions!

We have had several parents ask for additional resources, outside of GVMS, to support parenting their students.  We are glad you asked!  There are many resources on the Sullivan Inter agency Youth Services Center that can be used, including Parent Project from the FFPD!  Take a look and get signed up! 

We are already planning for and fielding phone calls for 8th grade promotion!  Please mark your calendars for Thursday, June 11 beginning at 10 am!  Here are a few things to note:

• All 8th graders get 4 tickets ONLY
• Tickets are available AFTER Memorial Day weekend and will be signed over to the students directly!  Lost tickets cannot be replaced!
• Rain or shine, we will be outside in the amphitheater
• We ask that all signs, balloons, or anything else blocking the view of other families be left outside or we will hold it in our front office
• If you want to bring your own chair, please do so
• Gates for families promotion will open 9:30 AM
• Any sibling that attends GVMS and wants to attend promotion, MUST be signed out by an adult on their emergency card and must also have a ticket!
• All 8th graders are dismissed immediately after promotion ends

More information will come out as we get closer to the date of promotion!

    

Every day, over our loud speakers, we make lots of announcements to our students.  These include: events coming up, clubs to join, sports activities, grading windows, and more.  PLEASE make sure that you all, at home, bookmark this page HERE so that YOU don't miss out on what's happening at GVMS!  We have a LOT of exciting activities coming up that you won't want your student (or YOU!) to miss out on!

Did you purchase your yearbook?  If not, you still have time!  Please visit www.yearbookordercenter.com and use code 7927 or enter "Green Valley Middle School".  Cost is NOW $45.  If you are unsure if you purchased one, please email LynnLa@fsusd.org to double check.  If you double order, we cannot issue refunds =)

The SPRING FLING IS COMING!!  We are gearing up for our 6th Annual Spring Fling at GV Cellars on Saturday, April 25th from 4-8 PM and WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Do you have connections for tickets to sporting events, time shares, winery tours, limo tours, etc?  Please reach out to your connections and help us make this year's event even more fun and successful than last year's (that may be hard as last year was a TON of fun!).  Tickets are ON SALE NOW and can be purchased in the main office or CLICK HERE.  All of the donation letters are HERE and will be emailed from GVMS PTC, and Sign Up Genius links ARE LIVE!  

Please click HERE to help with our Dessert Auction!  

Please click HERE for our Donation Auction!

You DON'T want to miss this!

We are ALWAYS thinking outside the box to create effective ways to reach all of our students!  Want to be a part of this??  Check out THIS LINK to see the different ideas that our teachers have come up

February 21, 2020

Every day at GVMS, we mention being nice/saying kind words/being polite/doing the right thing DAILY to remind our Vikings that we are all here together!  Sometimes, that can be much more difficult than anticipated.  February has been ESPECIALLY hard this school year.  We have been able to use the resources from THIS LINK to help us and wanted to share them with you all as well!

We have had several parents ask for additional resources, outside of GVMS, to support parenting their students.  We are glad you asked!  There are many resources on the Sullivan Inter agency Youth Services Center that can be used, including Parent Project from the FFPD!  Take a look and get signed up! 

We are already planning for and fielding phone calls for 8th grade promotion!  Please mark your calendars for Thursday, June 11 beginning at 10 am!  Here are a few things to note:

• All 8th graders get 4 tickets ONLY
• Tickets are available AFTER Memorial Day weekend and will be signed over to the students directly!  Lost tickets cannot be replaced!
• Rain or shine, we will be outside in the amphitheater
• We ask that all signs, balloons, or anything else blocking the view of other families be left outside or we will hold it in our front office
• If you want to bring your own chair, please do so
• Gates for families promotion will open 9:30 AM
• Any sibling that attends GVMS and wants to attend promotion, MUST be signed out by an adult on their emergency card and must also have a ticket!
• All 8th graders are dismissed immediately after promotion ends

More information will come out as we get closer to the date of promotion!

    

Every day, over our loud speakers, we make lots of announcements to our students.  These include: events coming up, clubs to join, sports activities, grading windows, and more.  PLEASE make sure that you all, at home, bookmark this page HERE so that YOU don't miss out on what's happening at GVMS!  We have a LOT of exciting activities coming up that you won't want your student (or YOU!) to miss out on!

Did you purchase your yearbook?  If not, you still have time!  Please visit www.yearbookordercenter.com and use code 7927 or enter "Green Valley Middle School".  Cost is NOW $45.  If you are unsure if you purchased one, please email LynnLa@fsusd.org to double check.  If you double order, we cannot issue refunds =)

The SPRING FLING IS COMING!!  We are gearing up for our 6th Annual Spring Fling at GV Cellars on Saturday, April 25th from 4-8 PM and WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Do you have connections for tickets to sporting events, time shares, winery tours, limo tours, etc?  Please reach out to your connections and help us make this year's event even more fun and successful than last year's (that may be hard as last year was a TON of fun!).  Tickets are ON SALE NOW and can be purchased in the main office or CLICK HERE.  All of the donation letters are HERE and will be emailed from GVMS PTC, and Sign Up Genius links ARE LIVE!  

Please click HERE to help with our Dessert Auction!  

Please click HERE for our Donation Auction!

You DON'T want to miss this!

We are ALWAYS thinking outside the box to create effective ways to reach all of our students!  Want to be a part of this??  Check out THIS LINK to see the different ideas that our teachers have come up

February 14, 2020

We strive to encourage students to be kind and care about one another, which can be quite a challenge in middle school and beyond.  We remind students DAILY on the loud speaker, have words of kindness posted all over campus and distribute Good News Referrals and Pride Cards for this as well as often as possible.  

Random Act of Kindness Day is February 17 and, while we are not on campus, there are ways that we can all encourage kindness all the time!  Take a look at THIS ARTICLE to help encourage this at home as well!

Every day at GVMS, we mention being nice/saying kind words/being polite/doing the right thing DAILY to remind our Vikings that we are all here together!  Sometimes, that can be much more difficult than anticipated.  February has been ESPECIALLY hard this school year.  We have been able to use the resources from THIS LINK to help us and wanted to share them with you all as well!

We have had several parents ask for additional resources, outside of GVMS, to support parenting their students.  We are glad you asked!  There are many resources on the Sullivan Inter agency Youth Services Center that can be used, including Parent Project from the FFPD!  Take a look and get signed up!

We have analyzed our MAP data and we will be hosting a MAP celebration on Tuesday, February 18 during tutorial!  CONGRATS to those that made growth or are on grade level in English and/or Math!  We have HUNDREDS of students that had made growth!  WAY TO GO!

Want a more in depth look?  Check out the MAP Parent Toolkit website to answer some more questions you may have!

MAP "On Grade Level" Numbers:

        English          Math

6th:       218             228

7th:       221             235 

                     8th:       226            241                       

Every day, over our loud speakers, we make lots of announcements to our students.  These include: events coming up, clubs to join, sports activities, grading windows, and more.  PLEASE make sure that you all, at home, bookmark this page HERE so that YOU don't miss out on what's happening at GVMS!  We have a LOT of exciting activities coming up that you won't want your student (or YOU!) to miss out on!

Did you purchase your yearbook?  If not, you still have time!  Please visit www.yearbookordercenter.com and use code 7927 or enter "Green Valley Middle School".  Cost is NOW $45.  If you are unsure if you purchased one, please email LynnLa@fsusd.org to double check.  If you double order, we cannot issue refunds =)

The SPRING FLING IS COMING!!  We are gearing up for our 6th Annual Spring Fling at GV Cellars on Saturday, April 25th from 4-8 PM and WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Do you have connections for tickets to sporting events, time shares, winery tours, limo tours, etc?  Please reach out to your connections and help us make this year's event even more fun and successful than last year's (that may be hard as last year was a TON of fun!).  Tickets are ON SALE NOW and can be purchased in the main office or CLICK HERE.  All of the donation letters are HERE and will be emailed from GVMS PTC, and Sign Up Genius links ARE LIVE!  

Please click HERE to help with our Dessert Auction!  

Please click HERE for our Donation Auction!

You DON'T want to miss this!

We are ALWAYS thinking outside the box to create effective ways to reach all of our students!  Want to be a part of this??  Check out THIS LINK to see the different ideas that our teachers have come up

February 7, 2020

Haven't we ALL tried to figure out how the teenage brain works, especially as our students/children go through middle school?  Is there even an answer to that?!?  Maybe not, however, there are some awesome articles that can help us understand it better.  One that I like is called "Decoding the Teenage Brain in Three Charts".  It's easy to read, helps us shed light on why peers are so important at this age, and possibly helps us (as parents AND educators) navigate our teenagers!  Take a look!

We, at GVMS, do our very best to ensure that our students are safe at all times.  We practice fire drills, intruder drills, review safety protocols and more.   Please talk with your students about where the exit routes are from their classrooms and where to evacuate if necessary.  Should we need to evacuate campus completely, GVMS offsite meeting and pick-up locations are #1: Cordelia Community Park (where skate park/baseball fields/dog park are located) and #2: Cordelia Hills open area (Next to Cordelia Hills Elementary School)

We have increased our video camera coverage and our front gate has provided extra security measures.  Additional radios are on campus for open communication and we ALWAYS want to increase our volunteers through our Watch DOGS program.  We can always use more eyes and ears!  We have our amazing campus monitors (and our staff) constantly patrolling our huge site and communicating to all Admin and office when anything goes on. 

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We continue to be VERY concerned about the amount of students that are dropped off at school in the morning (sometimes at 6:45 when Mrs. Cherry arrives!!) and some choose to WALK to Tower Mart.  This is extremely unsafe and we cannot chase after them to have them return to school.  Please remind your student NOT to do this!

We have analyzed our MAP data and we will be hosting a MAP celebration on Tuesday, February 18 during tutorial!  CONGRATS to those that made growth or are on grade level in English and/or Math!  We have HUNDREDS of students that had made growth!  WAY TO GO!

Want a more in depth look?  Check out the MAP Parent Toolkit website to answer some more questions you may have!

MAP "On Grade Level" Numbers:

        English          Math

6th:       218             228

7th:       221             235 

                     8th:       226            241                       

Did you know that colleges and employers make the time to search tweens and teens to see what their "digital footprint" looks like?  Take a look at the video to help you, as a parent, monitor your students social media presence every week/month in less than 5 minutes!

Every day, over our loud speakers, we make lots of announcements to our students.  These include: events coming up, clubs to join, sports activities, grading windows, and more.  PLEASE make sure that you all, at home, bookmark this page HERE so that YOU don't miss out on what's happening at GVMS!  We have a LOT of exciting activities coming up that you won't want your student (or YOU!) to miss out on!

Did you purchase your yearbook?  If not, you still have time!  Please visit www.yearbookordercenter.com and use code 7927 or enter "Green Valley Middle School".  Cost is NOW $45.  If you are unsure if you purchased one, please email LynnLa@fsusd.org to double check.  If you double order, we cannot issue refunds =)

The SPRING FLING IS COMING!!  We are gearing up for our 6th Annual Spring Fling at GV Cellars on Saturday, April 25th from 4-8 PM and WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Do you have connections for tickets to sporting events, time shares, winery tours, limo tours, etc?  Please reach out to your connections and help us make this year's event even more fun and successful than last year's (that may be hard as last year was a TON of fun!).  Tickets are ON SALE NOW and can be purchased in the main office or CLICK HERE.  All of the donation letters are HERE and will be emailed from GVMS PTC, and Sign Up Genius links ARE LIVE!  

Please click HERE to help with our Dessert Auction!  

Please click HERE for our Donation Auction!

You DON'T want to miss this!

We are ALWAYS thinking outside the box to create effective ways to reach all of our students!  Want to be a part of this??  Check out THIS LINK to see the different ideas that our teachers have come up